Hillary Clinton Accepted Over 375% More Money From Facebook Than Obama

OpEds Posted On May 5, 2020

According to the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org), based on data released on February 3rd, 2020, Hillary Clinton accepted more money from Facebook in 2016 ($491,142) than they have ever given to any one single Congressional or Presidential candidate in any one election cycle ($95,857, Barack Obama 2012).

In 2016, she accepted 512% more than Barack Obama accepted in 2012.

Clinton in 2016 also received more than 13 times (1,383%) what Obama received in 2008 ($35,500).

And in 2016, she accepted more than 40% of the money Facebook gave out to all candidates prior to 2016.

(By the way, in 2016, Hillary accepted more than 326% of the money Twitter gave away to all candidates prior to the 2016 election cycle.)

Clinton owned 19.31% of the money Facebook gave to all candidates through the 2016 election cycle since Facebook started giving money to Congressional and Presidential candidates in 2006.

Even if we include all of the money Facebook gave to candidates in their entire history through the 2016 election cycle ($2,584,320), Hillary still had 19.00% of that from the money she received in 2016 exclusively.

So you could say Hillary Clinton owns a significant amount of influence at Facebook.

Including the 2020 election cycle from the most recent FEC data as of February 3rd, 2020, she has received 10.16% of the money ($499,042) Facebook has given to all candidates in their entire history.

For all time, Obama has accepted $132,907 from Facebook and owns 2.71% of that.

So Clinton owns more than 375% of what Obama has received from Facebook.

Facebook has given $4,910,411 to all candidates in their history.

As of February 19th, 2020, Hillary Clinton is the only Congressional or Presidential candidate in Facebook’s history to accept $95,858 or more in one election cycle.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org) website, based on data released by the FEC on February 21st, 2020, Bernie Sanders is the only other candidate to accept more than $95,858 or more in one election cycle.

He currently has accepted $104,412 from Facebook in the 2020 election cycle.

No one else is likely to top the $491,142 Hillary Clinton received from Facebook in 2016. The only person who may be able to top that is Hillary Clinton herself.

Barack Obama also owned 70.71% of the money Facebook gave to all Congressional and Presidential candidates in 2008.

No future candidate is likely going to own that percentage of money from Facebook ever again. Not even Hillary Clinton.

Also, Obama owned just 19.82% of the money Facebook gave to all candidates in 2012.

But Hillary Clinton owned nearly double that percentage in 2016 (35.44%), had $395,285 more money than what Obama received in 2012 and she still lost to Donald Trump!

Based on that information, it shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Hillary Clinton clearly wasn’t effective in her Facebook advertisement campaigns in 2016. Or she was just a terrible candidate. Or both.

What?! Do you or does anybody think Hillary Clinton needed 70.71% of the money Facebook gave to all candidates in 2016 (like Obama in 2008) to win the Presidential election?

She would have needed $980,000.30 in 2016 if the money Facebook gave to all candidates was redistributed.

Facebook has given less money to all candidates than the previous election cycle only once. The only time was in 2010 when Facebook gave $29,150. In 2008, Facebook gave $50,205.

The question now is, how much money will Facebook give away to candidates in 2020?

If Facebook gives away more money in 2020 than they did 2018, they will be giving away more than $1,564,254.

That could indicate Hillary Clinton is running for President and probably won the Democratic Party presidential nomination again.

But it also will probably indicate that the Democrats are serious about taking back the Senate and the Presidency, since they currently own the House of Representatives here in 2020.

If Facebook gives away more money in 2020 than they did in the election cycle before the last election cycle (2016), Facebook will be giving away more than $1,385,943 to Congressional and Presidential candidates.

At the moment, if we assume we are 40 percent of the way through the 2020 election cycle, Facebook will be giving candidates a total of more than $1.9 million.

But this is the year 2020 where Republicans badly want President Trump to be re-elected so that their First and Second Amendment rights will be protected for 4 more years.

Democrats, on the other hand, are hell-bent on making sure Trump (or any Republican for that matter) doesn’t win in 2020 and will do almost anything to see that result happen.

People need to realize that in 2020 Republicans and Democrats will butt heads like never before.

So don’t be surprised if Facebook gives candidates more than they gave in 2018 ($1,564,254), or more than $2 million when we’re all said and done at the end of the 2020 election cycle.

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As of February 19th, 2020, Hillary has 9.71 million people who “Like” her Facebook page while 9.63 million “Follow” her Facebook page.

Clinton has 26.7 million followers on Twitter (as of February 19th, 2020) and hasn’t really used that to her advantage in the past two years as she has barely gained 5 million additional followers since January 17th, 2018, the day of Donald Trump’s Fake News awards on Twitter.

She had roughly 21.4 million followers on Twitter on January 17th, 2018, and roughly 21.6 million on February 17th, 2018.

Don’t believe me?

As of February 19th, 2020, Trump has 26 milllion “Likes” on Facebook and 27.58 million “Follows” on Facebook.

Just think how many more Facebook “Likes” and “Follows” Trump could have on Facebook if people weren’t afraid of losing their jobs to show their support for their political candidates that they believe in.

I mean not even half of the total number of people who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 “Like” or even “Follow” his Facebook page.

And, of course, the same thing can be said for Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump has 72.7 million followers on Twitter (as of February 19th, 2020) and probably would have a lot more Twitter followers if we assume he is being “heavily censored” by Twitter while Hillary probably isn’t being censored at all.

On January 17th, 2018, Trump had approximately 46.8 million Twitter followers and on February 17th, 2018, he had approximately 47.9 million Twitter followers.

So President Trump has gained approximately 25.9 million Twitter followers since January 17th, 2018.

As of February 19th, 2020, Clinton also has 4.59 million people who follow her on Instagram. She has 129,000 subscribers on YouTube.

Trump has 17.5 million Instagram followers and 270,000 YouTube subscribers (as of February 19th, 2020).

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According to the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org) website, the following candidates accepted money from Facebook in 2020:

In 2020, Pete Buttigieg accepted the most money from Facebook ($60,412).

Current Democratic Party presidential candidates Bernie Sanders ($45,573), Elizabeth Warren ($41,797) and Joe Biden ($17,383) also accepted more than $10,000 from Facebook.

Tom Steyer has accepted ($3,300), Amy Klobuchar ($1,206) and Tulsi Gabbard ($895).

Former Democratic Party presidential candidates Andrew Yang ($55,193), Kamala Harris ($35,000), Cory Booker ($21,160) and Jay Inslee ($13,635) also accepted $10,000 from Facebook.

The following former Democratic Party presidential candidates also accepted money from Facebook: Beto O’Rourke ($9,086), Eric Swalwell ($5,354), Julian Castro ($4,532), Steve Bullock ($3,890), Deval Patrick ($2,800), Kirsten Gillibrand ($1,500), Marianne Williamson ($1,362), Michael Bennet ($406), Tim Ryan ($295), John Hickenlooper ($205), Richard Ojeda ($100), Mike Gravel ($85), John Delaney ($55), Bill De Blasio ($28), Seth Moulton ($25).

Donald Trump, President of the United States, has accepted $3,332 from Facebook. Former Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh received $900.

Congressional members Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) $16,221, Mark Kelly (D-AZ) $14,843, Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) $13,500, Thom Tillis (R-NC) $11,900, Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) $10,600, and Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) $10,400 have also taken at least $10,000 from the Big Tech giant.

Facebook has given $761,837 to all Congressional and Presidential candidates in 2020.

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According to the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org) website, the following candidates accepted money from Facebook in 2018:

In 2018, 35 candidates received $10,000 or more from Facebook, with 30 of those being Democrats and five being Republicans.

The Top five Democrats were: Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) $81,108, Doug Jones (D-AL) $37,559, Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) $37,028, Jacky Rosen (D-NV) $30,959 and Kim Schrier (D-WA) $27,174.

The top five Republicans were: Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) $15,000, Dean Heller (R-NV) $13,100, Greg Walden (R-OR) $10,500, Will Hurd (R-TX) $10,200 and Steve Scalise (R-LA) $10,000.

2020 Democratic Party presidential candidates accepted: Amy Klobuchar ($8,300), Elizabeth Warren ($5,216), Bernie Sanders ($1,550) and Tulsi Gabbard ($10).

Former 2016 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine accepted $10,080.

Barack Obama accepted $1,000 from Facebook.

All Congressional and Presidential candidates received $1,564,254 from Facebook in 2018.

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According to the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org) website, the following candidates accepted money from Facebook in 2016:

Hillary Clinton took $491,142 from Facebook in 2016 (which is a record for a single election cycle) while Barack Obama accepted $2,750.

Facebook gave $1,385,943 to all Congressional and Presidential candidates.

That means Clinton took 35.44% of the money Facebook gave to all candidates in 2016.

In 2016, 21 candidates received $10,000 or more from Facebook, with 15 being Democrats and six being Republicans.

Marco Rubio was the only Republican candidate to accept more money than all Democrats except for the top five Democrats.

The top seven Democrats were: Hillary Clinton $491,141; Charles E Schumer (D-NY) $44,300; Bernie Sanders (I-VT) $37,494; Kamala Harris (D-CA) $27,275; Michael Bennet (D-CO) $25,200, Anna Eshoo (D-CA) $18,100 and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) $18,100.

The six Republicans who accepted $10,000 or more: Marco Rubio (R-FL) $22,955, Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) $15,400, Roy Blunt (R-MO) $14,100, Rand Paul (R-KY) $13,150, Mike Lee (R-UT) $11,000 and Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) $10,000.

By the way, Paul Ryan accepted $8,750 from Facebook in 2016.

2020 Democratic Presidential candidates Amy Klobuchar accepted $8,200 while Elizabeth Warren received $554.

Former Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine received $6,000.

Donald Trump accepted $4,815 from Facebook.

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According to the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org) website, the following candidates accepted money from Facebook in 2014:

In 2014, Facebook gave just $633,864 to all Congressional and Presidential candidates.

There were only 18 candidates who accepted $10,000 or more from Facebook. Nine of those candidates were Democrats while the other nine were Republicans.

Former 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Cory Booker (D-NJ) was the top receiver of Facebook money with $42,000 in 2014.

Amy Klobuchar accepted $2,500. Tim Kaine accepted $2,500.

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According to the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org) website, the following candidates accepted money from Facebook in 2012:

Barack Obama accepted $95,857 from Facebook in 2012, as he was the top recipient.

In 2012, Facebook gave $483,658 to all Congressional and Presidential candidates.

So Obama accepted 19.82% of all the money given to candidates from the Big Tech giant.

The other six candidates to receive $10,000 or more from Facebook were 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney $20,100, Ted Cruz (R-TX) $15,000, Claire McCaskill (D-MO) $14,500, Anna Eshoo (D-CA) $11,000, John Boehner (R-OH) $10,000 and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) $10,000.

Amy Klobuchar accepted $7,500 while Elizabeth Warren accepted $750.

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According to the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org) website, the following candidates accepted money from Facebook in 2010:

In 2010, Facebook gave just $29,150 to all candidates. Obama gave $2,200 back to Facebook in 2010.

There were no candidates who received $10,000 or more from the social media company in 2010.

But six candidates accepted at least $2,000. Those candidates are: Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) $4,800, Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) $3,900, Francine P Busby (D-CA) $2,400, Martha Coakley (D-MA) $2,400, Ron Wyden (D-OR) $2,400 and Carly Fiorina (R-CA) $2,000.

Amy Klobuchar accepted $300.

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According to the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org) website, the following candidates accepted money from Facebook in 2008:

In 2008, Obama accepted $35,500 from Facebook which was the most any candidate received.

Facebook gave $50,205 to all Congressional and Presidential candidates.

And Obama also has the highest percentage (70.71%) of any one candidate to have received money from the Big Tech giant in any election cycle in history (which includes the current 2020 election cycle).

Hillary Clinton accepted the second highest total with $7,900.

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According to the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org) website, the following candidates accepted money from Facebook in 2006:

In 2006, Facebook gave just $1,500 to two candidates, Tom Carper (D-DE) $1,000 and Evan Bayh (D-IN) $500.

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Here are the money totals that each Presidential candidate has accepted from Facebook in their entire history:

Biden, Joe (D) Pres $17,383
Buttigieg, Pete (D) Pres $60,412
Gabbard, Tulsi (D-HI) House $905
Klobuchar, Amy (D-MN) Senate $28,006
Sanders, Bernie (I-VT) Senate $84,617
Steyer, Tom (D) Pres $3,300
Trump, Donald (R) Pres $8,768
Warren, Elizabeth (D-MA) Senate $48,317

Democrat Michael Bloomberg and Republicans Rocky De La Fuente and Bill Weld have not taken any money from Facebook at this point.

These are the money totals of each candidate who have taken money from Facebook in their entire history. (Note: The position/office listed for the candidates may not be accurate or current for the 2020 election cycle).